Types of rewards

When you receive a new reward, you get a notification in your Inbox. You can also see all your rewards on the Rewards tab in your profile; similarly, you can find the rewards of other users in their profiles. For more information about the Rewards tab, see Your rewards.

Points

Many activities you perform in a community, like creating a document or commenting on someone else's post, automatically earn you some points. You can also earn points for activities other people do, like following you or liking a post you created. A person's point total is always visible on their profile.

Badges

A badge is a visual indication that a user has completed an activity inside or outside the community or sign of recognition from peers. Badges can be earned through activity or given by other community users. They can also be granted manually by Rewards administrators. When you receive a badge, you get a notification in your Inbox.

Badges highlight your accomplishments, such as gaining a new level or completing a mission, and reflect the type of accomplishment. Most badges are earned once.

Levels and level badges

At a certain point accumulation, you acquire a new level and an associated level badge.

Notification of a new level is delivered in Latest Acclaim in the Inbox, along with a leaderboard with the point totals for other users who are close to the same level. You can find the global leaderboard on the Rewards page of your community.

Mission badges

Mission badges are associated with missions which track activities in a specific area. For example, the Author mission gains levels as you are creating and tagging content, and by having content bookmarked. Mission badges are incremented to show advanced achievement over time. Note that you can see zero earned points for a mission if you just reached a new level.

Quest badges

A quest is a set of specific activities you must perform to complete the quest and receive a quest badge and points.

Onboarding quests are available in Inbox, on the Get Started tab. For promoted quests, you receive a separate notification in the Inbox. Other quests you can find in your profile, on the Rewards tab. Note that some quests may become available to you only when you complete the prerequisite quests.

Some quests can be completed only once, the others you can complete multiple times and receive multiple badges. Note that after you complete a repeatable quest, the activity counters are reset to zero, and the quest becomes available to you.